Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

Hi David,

>> Personally, I don't like it too much if people reply to my mailing
>> list articles to both me and the list.  IMHO that's redundant and
>> annoying.  Is that a convention and are there good reasons for such a
>> double-reply?
>
> AFAIK, that's what 'Mail-Followup-To' and 'Mail-Copies-To' headers are
> for (see mine). However, not many mail clients know them...

Ah, nice.  I'll figure out how to add these headers to my own messages,
so that followups to me won't be duplicated.

>> If not, how do I teach gnus to put the mailing list in the To-header
>> and to omit the Cc (unless I do a wide reply).
>
> I don't think this is possible with only the 'to-list parameter being
> set. You could sync the 'to-address parameter with the 'to-list
> parameter in mailing-list mode. Not really nice, but this should work:

Hey, that looks quite good.  Thanks a lot!

> (add-hook 'gnus-mailing-list-mode-hook 
> 	  (lambda ()
> 	    (unless (gnus-group-get-parameter 
> 		     gnus-newsgroup-name 'to-address)
> 	      (let ((to-list (gnus-group-get-parameter 
> 			      gnus-newsgroup-name 'to-list)))
> 		(when to-list
> 		  (gnus-group-set-parameter gnus-newsgroup-name 
> 					    'to-address to-list))))))

Bye,
Tassilo